This book is intended as an illustration of the fruitfulness of interpreting the Second Vatican Council as an instance of “renewal within tradition.” That phrase is used in contrast to the “hermeneutics of rupture or discontinuity,” which then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger criticized in a December 2002* speech to the Roman curia (the text of which is provided as a kind of p (...)
January 30, 2009
Books
Rewriting History
Vatican IIRenewal within TraditionEdited by Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew LeveringOxford University Press, $29.95, 488 pp.
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